Why Choose StartMail?

What’s wrong with free email services?

“Free” email services like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail come at a high price: your privacy. The fine print lets them search every message you send and receive for profit‐generating keywords. They even keep their own copies of your deleted messages and your attachments.

Furthermore, your emails can pass through servers all over the world, where they’re vulnerable to hackers and mass‐surveillance programs. Protecting yourself with encryption is often difficult and time‐consuming.

How does StartMail protect you?

StartMail never reads your email. We believe that your privacy is a basic right. We don’t send or sell information about you to any corporation or marketer, and we don’t store copies of anything you’ve deleted.

StartMail lets you encrypt your email with PGP, the Internet’s gold standard, with a single click. And you can send encrypted email to a regular email user, who reads it by answering a security question you provide. No matter what server your email passes through, it remains secure.

Meet the StartMail Team

Alex Van Eesteren

Alex is responsible for Business Development and European Media relations. He also oversees StartPage’s and StartMail’s product innovations and customer support services.

Dr. Katherine Albrecht

Katherine is in charge of US Media Relations and Marketing Initiatives. She is a respected expert in the privacy arena, with a decade of experience as a researcher and activist.

David Bodnick

David was the original founder of StartPage. With expertise in custom software development, he leads the team that develops StartPage’s core technology, including its privacy technology.

Robert Beens

Robert is CEO of StartPage/Ixquick and oversees all company aspects including operations, product development, technology and finance.

Sally Payze

Sally is responsible for worldwide operations, focusing on customer support service and implementations.

Jörg Bauer

Jörg is project manager and press representative for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is responsible for public affairs for our German community and leads the German-Austrian-Swiss team.

Sue Holl

Sue is responsible for the German company communication, and for German translations and information. She is in charge of the German support team and of editing the German blog.

Our Mission

StartMail is built by the people behind StartPage
and Ixquick, the world’s most private search engines.

As early as 2005 we recognized the need to treat privacy as a fundamental right. We turned out to be ahead of our time. Over the next decade, revelation after revelation showed how much our online privacy had come under attack. In response, we built more and more defenses into our search engines to protect our users.

People now use StartPage and Ixquick to find information millions of times per day, without being tracked or profiled.

We then turned to our next challenge: email privacy. Everyone uses email, but sending regular email is like sending a postcard—it makes snooping very easy!

That’s why we built StartMail from scratch: a total solution for protecting your email privacy that includes features like extra-secure data storage, disposable email addresses, and an ownership that will resist unwarranted intrusion. It has easy‐to‐use ‘one‐click’ encryption, and a very clear privacy policy.

In the longer term we plan to keep adding state‐of‐the‐art privacy‐enhancing technologies, empowering people everywhere to get back their online privacy.

Get Big Brother out of your email. Join the privacy revolution with StartMail!